{"product_id":"midnight-at-the-chevron-station-paperback","title":"Midnight at the Chevron Station - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Malan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Malan is editor of \u003cem\u003eCloudbank\u003c\/em\u003e (cloudbankbooks.com), a literary journal in Corvallis, Oregon. He is the winner of Meridian's 2024 Editors' Prize for Fiction. He is also the author of three books from Blue Light Press: \u003cem\u003eOverland Park \u003c\/em\u003e(2017, poetry and flash fiction), \u003cem\u003eTarzan's Jungle Plane\u003c\/em\u003e (2019, flash fiction), and \u003cem\u003eDeep Territory\u003c\/em\u003e (2021, poetry). His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eEpoch, Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, Lake Effect, New American Writing, \u003c\/em\u003e and many other journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake's ambition-\"To see a World in a Grain of Sand\" and hold \"Eternity in an hour\"-is Michael Malan's achievement in Midnight at the Chevron Station. Malan makes his midnight hold Eternity, and his Chevron station show a whole World. This visionary collection is intimate, taking place \"here, in the land of you and me only,\" but also vast, a full report on \"what I saw when I looked inside the book of stars.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -H. L. Hix, author of \u003cem\u003eConstellation\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new volume, Michael Malan's lyrics and flash fiction perform acrobatic marvels wherein the real, magical, and surreal collide, yet they dance together in a harmonious and winning tango. These richly imaginative poems are musically alive and replete with small moments of grace and wonder, as when the poet notices \"a parachute opening like a flower in the sky,\" and that \"[i]t's not easy to stand up in a stiff wind and wear your hair like heaven.\" I love his touches of irreverent humor and his moments of Zen profundity that amalgamate fact and fancy, memory and longing: \"Everything you desire has its place in your \/ favorite mirage.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Maurya Simon, author of \u003cem\u003eLa Sirena: A Novella in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I find most intriguing about Michael Malan's Midnight at the Chevron Station is his use of day-to-day details that bridge to the historical, and trail from there into the deeply imagined, preserving a time and place and energy for us all. As he writes in \"The Vanishing Prairie\" \"Everything \/ is alive, even the pepperoni pizza in the oven. Each piece leads to the visionary and the edge of the metaphysical where \"We are all drifting in the language of summer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Christopher Buckley, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Far Republics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 94\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353868321017,"sku":"9781421835723","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/H81T-vLzwp9781421835723.webp?v=1769828697","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/midnight-at-the-chevron-station-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}